Shifting conversations: Moses Mendelssohn’s “new” Philosophische Gespräche [Philosophical Dialogues] (1771)

This article offers a Catalan translation of the third dialogue of Moses Mendelssohn’s Philosophische Gespräche [Philosophical Dialogues], based on the revised version published in 1771. It continues the author’s earlier complete translation of the 1755 Philosophische Gespräche, which appeared in the Anuari de la Societat Catalana de Filosofia (2022) in the article “Leibnizianisme crític, spinozisme encobert?: Els Philosophische Gespräche (Diàlegs filosòfics, 1755) de Moses Mendelssohn” (Sales Vilalta, 2022). The edition of 1771 primarily affects the third dialogue, while the remainder of the work remains largely unchanged. The present translation thus serves a double purpose: first, to give Catalan readers full access to the Philosophische Gespräche; and second, to trace the editorial and conceptual development of this text.